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3. Name: G. WINTER
Launched: 1840's late? Size, 73 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
Name: G. H. WILSON
Launched: 1850s or 60s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: G. W. GRAHAM
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 245' X 39' X 6.5'
Power: 25's- 7 ft., 3 boilers
Launched: 1861, Elezabeth, Pa.,
Capt. C.W. Batchelor supervised boat's building.
Destroyed: 1867, July 11, St. Louis, Burned with YELLOWSTONE
Area: 1861, St. Louis-Memphis
1867, Made trip up Mo. R. to Fort Buford.
Owner: 1861, Haliday and Co. Cairo, Ill.
Captain: 1861, Bart Bowen; pilot Sam Bowen, both of Hannibal, Mo.
*1861, Master, probably for one trip, St. Louis-Memphis,
Jones Worden
Comments: Named for Capt. G. Wash Graham.
: the Bowens had southern sympathies and this boat was banned
from landing at Hannibal.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
*Jones Worden's Steamboats and Steamboating Career by Frederick J. Worden
1. Name: G. W. HILL/ISLAND MAID
Type: Sternwheel, wood hull, packet Size:190' X 36' X 5'
Power: 16's - 7', three 42" X 24' boilers
Launched: 1909, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard yard for G.W. Hill
Destroyed: 1932, Dec. 7, burned on ways at Madison, Ind.
Area: 1909, St. Louis - Calhoun County trade
1912-23, Tramped new Orleans - Pittsburgh
1923-32, Coney Island ferry service
Owners: 1909-11, Granderson Winfrey Hill
1912-23, Capt. D.W.Wisherd and Sam Gegory
1923-32, Coney Island Company, Cincinnati
Comments: Second boat to enter the new Keokuk lock
: 1923, renamed ISLAND MAID
: 1929, spring, Cincinnati, most of upper works burned.
Rebuilt.
Name: GALENA
Launched:1840s, early?
Destroyed: 1857, fall, burned at Red Wing.
Area: 1847, U. Miss. R. above Galena.
Owner: 1854, Galena & Minnesota Packet Company
Captain(s): 1857, May, Laughton
Comments: Mentioned several times in this Article
1857, May 1, arrived at St. Paul, Minn.
: 1854, May 7, McCartney, Wiss., Collided with DR. FRANKLIN.
The latter was lost.
Name: GAME COCK
Launched: ?1900-1911?
Area: California Delta
1. Name: GARDEN CITY
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 400 tons.
Launched: 1853, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1855, Jan. 14, 35 mi. below Napoleon, Ark, burned.
Area: Ill. R., round trips, St. Louis-LaSalle
Owners: 1853, in part, Eli Mills
*1854, Eli Mills sold his interest to Isaac Kimber and Herman Price
Captains: Herman Price, Isaac Kimber
Comments: 1853, Spring, went up St. Louis-La Salle, 302 mi. 00/21/55
: *Source
: was a fast boat making round trip St. Louis-LaSalle
in five days instead of the usual time of one week.
: Source
Name: GATE CITY
1857-1883
Name: GATE CITY
Launched: 1859, Cincinnati, Oh.
Type: At first a sidewheel wooden hull freighter Size: 297.84 tons
1873, St. Louis, or Rock Island Boat Yards, remodled and converted to sternwheeler
Areas: 1873, was to go to "cotten streams of the south."
However later info indicates this boat went into the Davenport and St. Louis trade.
Later she was operating between St. Louis, Kansas City, and other Missouri points.
Owners: 1874, Thomas B. Cabeene of St. Louis
Captains: 1873, Miles (Milo) A. Pruden
Comments: See
Name: GATE CITY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 73.8' X 13.8' X 3.5'
Power: 7" - 3', 1 boiler, 54" X 18'.
Launched: 1900, Winona, Minn.
Destroyed: 1913, June 15, Saline R.
Area: Came out in Winona-Fountain trade
1906, went south
1907, inspected at Jonesville, La.
1911, went to Arkadelphia, Ark., on U. Ouachita R.
Owners: 1906, sold to Capt John A. Armstrong
Captains: 1900, A.B. Robins
Name: GATEWAY CLIPPER
Type: Diesel Size:
Launched: contemporary.
Area: Pittsburgh
Name: GATZ
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: The Diary Of Joseph T. Anderson storekeeper,
Commerce, Mo.
- Wednesday Evening, March 20th, 1861. "Business very dull,
but boats are plenty. There was a good number of boats
passed up today. Amoung the rest was the Memphis with the
mail, the new Gatz, Meteor, Imperial Maria. Denning brought
Joe Kelly and two boats. The Ryland landed here 4o'clock going
down. Took 7 cords wood, but put off no freight."
Name: GAZELLE
Launched: 1844, Cincinnati, Oh. Size: 30/90 tons
Area: enrolled at New Orleans
Comments: This info comes from Ship Register and Enrollment
of New Orleans, La. prepared by the survey of Federal
Archives in Louisiana Service Divison Work Projects
Administration, 1841-1850
3. Name: GAZELLE
Launched: 1840's late? Size: 8 tons.
Area: 1853, Sacramento R. Calif.
1. Name: GEM
Type: Sternwheel, Wood hull packet Size: 211' X 35' X 6.8', 298 tons
Launched: 1850, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1856, Dismantled
Area: Miss. R., 1850, N.O. - Memphis
Owner: 1850-52, equally by Snap, Capt. Lewis and Hanger, Peter of Little Rock
1852-54, Dyas, Capt. Richard Irwin
1855, : 1852-54, Caldwell, John E. of N.O.
Captain(s): 1850-52, Snapp, Lewis
1852-54, Dyas, Capt. Richard Irwin
1. Name: GEM
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet Size: 145 tons
Launched: 1863, Wheeling, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1869, Nov. 9, Nebraska City, Neb., lost.
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: Hughes, Capt.
Captain(s): Huges, Capt.
1. Name: GEM
Type: Sternheeler, wooden hull, packet Size: 135' X 21' X 3'
Power: 3 boilers
Launched: 1898, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard yard
Destroyed: 1914, Feb. 14, Hahnville Landing, La. Burned killing 5 crew members
Area: 1898, Red R. above Shreveport
1910-14, Feb. 14, N.O. - Bayou Sara trade
Owner: 1898 - 1901, Feb.? Rea, Capt. Ben C.
1901?-10, Red River Packet Company
1910-14, Feb. 14 Comeaux Family
Captain(s): 1898 - 1901, Rea, Ben C.
1914, pilots, Comeaux, Eddie, pilot Barre, William E.
Comments: 1901, Feb., just above Shreveport, Sank with 650 bales cotton aboard.
1908, Jan. 30, 1 mi. above Browns Landing, Red R. sank.
1910, Nov. 23, At Elevator #3, N.O. Harbor, sank
Name: GEM CITY
Type:Side wheel, wood hull packet Size:303' X 36' X 6'
Power: Engines, 28 1/2's - 7. Wheels: 28' dia., 15 buckets ea..
Launched: 1881, St Louis Mo. Hull built for Keokuk Northern Line.
which was financially unable to complete the boat. The
St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company finished her under
the direction of R. H. Medill.
Destroyed: 1883, Sept. 22, burned at foot of Barton St., St Louis, Mo.
Area: U. Miss. R.
: 1881, Keokuk - St. Louis, 2 round trips. St Louis - St. Paul,
4 round trips.
: 1882-83, St. Louis - St Paul, 14 round trips, several times in
5 1/2 days.(1,352 mi.)
Owners: 1881 - 83, St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company
Captains and pilots: 1881, Captain, A. M. Hutchinson
: 1882 Wm. Thompson, Pilot, Campbell Hunt and Hi Beedle.
: Later, George W. Jakes, pilots, Douglas Roberts and Mills Purdy.
Comments: Some of her machenery came from the ANDY JOHNSON.
: At one time, under command of Capt Jakes, she hit a rock and sank,
The GEN. H.F. DEVOL assisted in raising her.
Name: GENERAL BRAGG
Type: Cotton-clad Size:
Launched: 1850s?
Area: Miss. R.
Comments: Confederate
Name: GENERAL BROOKS
Launched: 1840s?
Destroyed: 1849, May 17, Fire at St. Louis docks.
Owner: 1846, Capt./owner LaBarge, Joseph Captain and pilots: Capt.
Name: GENERAL BROWN
:An advertisment dated Jan. 14, 1825 advertised the Steam Boat
FOR ST. LOUIS,
The Fine Fast Sailing Steamboat,
Will leave this place about the 10th of
March. For freight or passage apply to
Robert Lindell & Co.
Who will have items ready for Nashville, or
any other port that freight may offer for.
Pittsburgh, Jan 14---if.
: This information from photocopy of partial page of
Pittsburgh Gazzette, March 18, 1925.
Name: GENERAL BROWN
Launched: 1840, after
Comments: Broke Enterprise's 25 day record for up-river distance
between N.O. and St. Louis. Did it in 9-1/2 days.
Matched RANDOLPHS record N.O. - Louisville 1837, 6/22/0
Name: GENERAL CARROL
Launched: 1820's mid to late?
Area: Nashville to N.O.
Captain and pilots: 1826, Cub, Sellers, Isaiah
1. Name: GENERAL CHAS. H. TOMPKINS
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 181' X 25' X 3.5', 356 tons.
Power: 11's-4 ft., 2 boilers.
Launched: 1878, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: Date unknown, sank 1/2 mi. above mouth of White R.
Area: Built for Mo. R. trade.
1881, was in St. Stephens Mission, S.D.
Later, Memphis-Ark. R. trade
Owners: When new, Capt. William J. Kountz
1887-88 Season purchased by Capt. Albert B. Smith and associates, White R.
Captains: 1878, Pilots, Jacob Poe and Andrew Bunton.
When sunk, Master, Charles Postal; pilot, Charles Nixon
Name: GENERAL COFFEE
Launched: 1826
Name: GENERAL CROWDER originally the R. DUNBAR
1. Name: GENERAL CUSTER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 182' X 28' X 3.8'.
Power: 14 1/2's-4 ft., 2 boilers, each 38" X 24'.
Launched: 1870, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1879, O)ct. 5, Rule, Neb., snagged
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: Capt. William J. Kountz
Name: GENERAL CROWDER - Originally the R. DUNBAR
1. Name: GENREAL D.H.RUCKER
Type; Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 215' X 35' X 4.'.
Power: Ainslee-Cochran engines, 16's-5 ft., 3 boilers, each 40" X 26'.
Launched: 1878, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: still documented, 1886 at Sioux City
Area: Built for Mo. R. trade
Ran one season St. Louis-Rocheport trade
Owners: 1870-??, Capt. William J. Kountz
Captains: St. Louis-Rocheport trade, John Massie
1. Name: GENERAL DANA
Launched: 1850's early
Area: 1854-56, Sacramento R. Calif.
Owner: 1856, California Steam Navigation Company
1. Name: GENERAL DAWES/U.K. RIGGS
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 119' X 26' X 3.3'
Launched: 1883, Harmar, Oh. Knox Yard
Destroyed: 1892, Rebuilt and renamed U.K. RIGGS by Huling Bros.
1894, Dismantled
Area: when new, Marietta-Middleport with C. Barringer, clerk.
: 1890 was running East Liverpool-Steubenville
: cir. 1892 or 3, Arkansas R.
Owners: Built for Capt. Charles P. Leavitt with J.E. Mayhew.
1892, pruchased by Huling Bros. contractors.
Later sold to Ark. R.
Comments: Originally named for the father of U.S. Vice Pres. Charles Dawes
: U. Kidd Riggs was lockmaster, Davis Island, Dam No. 1
Name: GENERAL GRANT
Type: Sternwheeler:
Launched: 1850s?
Area: U. Mo. R.
Comments: was in Indian wars
Name: GEN. H. F. DEVOL
Launched: 1870s?, Late?
Area: U. MISS. R.
Comments: 1883, Helped raise the GEM CITY's
remains.
Name: GENERAL JACKSON
Comments: Need info on this "original" boat
Name: GENERAL JACKSON
Type: Sternwheeler Size: 300' 4 decks
Launched: Contemporary?
Destroyed: Still crusing
Area: Cumberland R., Nashville, TN
Comments: Claims to be the largest "Showboat" in the world.
: The GENERAL JACKSON'S Website
1. Name: GENERAL JESSUP
Type: Sidewheel woden hull packet. Size:374 tons
Launched: 1847, Elizabethtown, Pa.
Destroyed, 1849, Dec. 10, Chester, Ill., Snagged and lost
Area: Colo. R.
: 1848-49, St Louis - New Orleans
Owner: George Johnson
Comments, Was said that she was built to "further the prosecution of
Mexican War".
Name: GENERAL JOHN NEWTON
Launched: 1899
Area: U. Miss. R
Owner: 1998, University of Minnesota
Comments: Presently used by the university as a Floating Theater.
Name: GENERAL LANE
Launched: 1849?
Area: N. O. to Cincinnati
Name: GENERAL LYON, originally the DE SOTO
1. Name: GENERAL MEADE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 192' X 30' X 4.3'.
Power: 8 3/4" and 23"-4 ft., 2 boilers. Later, 12's-5 ft.
Launched: 1875, Pittsburgh, Pa. for Capt. William J. Koontz
Destroyed: 1888, Sept. 4,* Pelican Bend, Mo. R., snagged and lost.
Area: U. Mo. R.
Later days, St. Louis-Osage R. in Mo.-Rocheport.
Owners: Capt. William J. Kountz
Comments: 1884, Sept. 5, Opposite Jefferson City, Mo., snagged.
: Mentioned in this Article.
1. Name: GENERAL MEIGS/ALLENA MAY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 115' X 20' X 3', 144 tons
Launched: 1864, Wheeling W. Va.
Destroyed: unknown
Area: 1865, short trade upper Ohio R.
: 1868, Parkerburg - Pittsburgh trade.
: later, went to New Orleans
Owners: Taken over by the United States Quartermaster Corps upon completion.
: 1865, either Sept.12 or Oct 12, sold and remaned ALLENA MAY after daughter
of Capt. Jonathan Hamilton, Gallipolis, Ohio, part owner.
: When in New Orleans, Samuel Latta.
Captains: 1865 - 1866, Sept 15, Jonathan Hamilton.
: 1868, Jacob Flicker
: When in New Orleans, William Maitland.
: 1870, Aug., Algiers, La., moored and Advertised "For Sale".
: at one time, Jacob H. Singleton of Wheeling, W.V.
Comments: 1950s, Capt. Hamilton's Daughter died in Shreveport.
: Dr. Hamilton Harper, Shreveport, was Capt. Hamilton's Grandson.
Comments: a newspaper headline tells us that the wooden screw steamer
S.S.SUMTER sank in a collision with the transport steamer
GENERAL MEIGS on June 24, 1863.
Name: GEN. NEVILLE
Launched: 1820's?
Area: Mo. R.
Comments: from the Boone's Lick Heritage
Name: GENERAL PERSHING, originally the LORA
Name: GENERAL PIKE
Launched: 1818, Cincinnati, Oh.
Comments: 1818, 1st steamboat to land in St. Louis.
: Also the first boat to accomodate passengers, exclusively.
: 1819, Made run Louisville - Cincinnati
: See
Name: GENERAL PIKE
Name: GENERAL PRICE, originally the LAURENT MILLAUDON
1856-??
Name: GENERAL QUITMAN
Comments: Made run N.O. - Donaldsville 1860, 0/5/6
Name: GENERAL RUKER
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Area: U. Mo. R.
1. Name: GENERAL RUSK
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hulled packet. Size: 117' X 32' X 5', 128 tons,
Launched: 1850, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1860, off the lists.
Area: At first, out of Franklyn, La.
1853, went to Sabine R., Tex.
Owners: 1850, Capt. Robert Patton, Sabine R.
1853, Purchased by Sutherland and Sabine Navigation Co., Texas
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: GENERAL SHERMAN
Type: Sidewheel, Union gunboat
Size: 168' X 26' X 4.5'
Launched: 1864, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Area: Used on Tenn. R.
Owners: Built by the U.S. War Dept. and transfered to the Navy
Transfered after the war to USQMD.
Comments: One of four similar boats built by the Army: GENERAL GRANT,
GENERAL THOMAS and the GENERAL BURNSIDE
1. Name: GENERAL SHERMAN/ELLA KIMBROUGH
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 145' X 28' X 4.', 243 tons.
Power: Engines, 12-1/2's-4-1/2 ft.
Launched: 1877, Jeffersonville, Ind. in Baltimore Yard
Built for the U.S. for Yellowstone R.
Destroyed: 1884, Sept. 20. Hit snag in St. Charles Chute. Total
loss, No lives lost.
Area: At first, Yellowstone R.
Later, Mo. R. trade.
Owner: 1877, U. S. Gov.
Later, U.S. sold to P.P. Manion
Manion sold to Capt. T. M. Kimbrough
Captain: Later, T. M. Kimbrough,
Comments: Kimbrough renamed her after his wife.
Name: GENERAL SLOCUM
Type: Sidewheel Excursion Boat Size: Large
Launched: (1892?) (Rockaway Beach?), N.Y.
Destroyed: 1903, Fire
Area: Hudson R. Excursions out of Rockaway Beach, N. Y.
Comments: This boat's burning is considered worst steamboat disaster
of all time. Of 2,000 aboard, 957 persons were lost.
1891: bonds were floated to build her.
Book: The Burning of the General Slocum by Claud Rust. Available from
Maritime Industry Museum book store
Name: GENERAL STERLING PRICE/GENERAL PRICE originally the LAURENT MILLAUDON
1856-??
1. Name: GENERAL THOMAS/INGOMAR
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull gunboat Size: 165' X 26' X 4.5'.
Power: Engines 16's- 5-1/2 ft.
Launched: 1864, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Destroyed: 1868, Dec. 31, 4 mi. above Wheeling, snagged and sunk.
Area: as INGOMAR, Pittsburgh-Matamoras, 2 rounds per week.
Owners: Built by U.S. Army later went to U.S. Navy and after war back to Army
1866, purchased by Capts. Steve Thompson, Fred Kimpel, and
Thad Thomas and others.
After sinking, sold to D.T. Lane, Pittsburgh
Area: as gunboat, Tenn. R.
Comments: 1866, remodeled into packet INGOMAR by Capt. Thompson
: 1868, Mar. 24, evening, ran onto sunken barge, sank, raised.
: Machinery went to towboat D.T. LANE
: See GEN. SHERMAN
Name: GENERAL VAN DORN
Type: Confederate ironclad Size:
Launched: 1860s?
Area: Miss. R.
Name: GENERAL WARREN
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Long Island sound; then California Delta
Name: GENERAL WASHINGTON
Name: GENERAL WOOD - Originally the S.L. ELAM
1. Name: GENEVA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size 163' X 30' X 5.' 284 tons.
Launched: 1871, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: ?
Area: 1875, Semi-daily service up Monon R.
1884-85, winter, New Orleans, excursion trips.
1885, Apr., returned to Pittsburg
1885, Oct. 7, Ohio R., West Bellevue, Pa., was flagship in
parade at opening of Davis Island Dam.
Owners: When new - 1884, Dec., Pittsburgh, Brownsville & Geneva Packet Company.
1884, William J. Caskey and Capt. Lew N. Clark
1885, Apr, Capt. Lew N. Clark became sole owner.
Captains: 1871-84, M.A. Cox
1884-85, Lew N. Clark
1885, at least during parade, C.W. Batchelor
Comments: a pending late 1884 sale mentioned here Here
1. Name: GENOA
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 170' X 28' X 5.', 227 tons
Launched: 1854, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1856, Sept. 13, Nebraska City, snagged and lost.
Area: Mo. R.
Owner: 1854-56, Sept. 13, Capt. Joseph Throckmorton, Robert Campbell,
Joseph E. Gorman, all of St. Louis.
Captains: *1855, pilot or capt., Henry Jasper King
1854-56, Sept. 13, Joseph Throckmorton; mate, P.S. Ray
*King Family Records
1. Name: GEORGE C. WOLFF
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size:198' X 37.5' X 5.7'
Power: Engines, 17-1/2's- 6 ft., 3 boilers, each 38" X 26 ft.
Machinery from the CITY OF PEKIN
Area: Built for Ill. R. trade. Ran Ill. R.-St. Louis
Also ran St. Louis-Shreveport.
Launched: 1872, Madison, Ind. for Illinois Packet Company
Destroyed: 1873, St. Francis Island, near Helena, Ark.
Way's claims 12 lives lost.
Newspaper article above claims only one lost, or could
the newspaper have a typographical error in the word "and"?
Should that word have been "all"?
Also see Comments, below:
1874, May 2, Bowling Green Bend at Babbler's Wood Yard,
Snagged and lost for good.
Captains: St. Louis-Shreveport, Lloyd T. Belt
1873,
1874, May 2, when snagged and lost, William W. Crapster was master.
Comments: Named for Claiborne Green Wolff.
His Name wasn't George, but that's what he was called.
: After boiler explossion, the hulk was towed to Memphis and rebuilt.
: Captain Henry S. Carter was aboard and taken to Memphis aboard the JULIA.
I am not certain whether he was an officer on the Wolff or a passenger. D.
Name: GEORGE COWLING/ALTON
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 140 X 26' X 4.5'
Power: Engined, 14's- 4-1/2 ft. Two boilers.
Launched: 1904, Metropolis, Ill.
Destroyed: 1927-28, winter, Mouth of Green R.,
while being moved to Green R., ice cut her seams. Lost.
Area: Paducah-Metropolis
1921, went to Paducah-Gonconda trade
1923 went to Louisville-Stephensport trade
Later to Paducah-Evansville trade
Owners: when new, Capt. E.J. Cowling
Later was sold to Miss Annie I. Baker, Paducah, Ky.
1921, Mar. sold to Capt. George Street
1923, Sold to Williams Bros., Evansville, Ind. and renamed ALTON
Comments: Whistle came from the DICK FOWLER
: Named after Captain E.J. Cowling's father.
: A tidbit about this boat
Name: GEORGE E. STAR
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1880s?
Area: Columbia R.. Seattle to Bellingham?
Comments: A slow boat.
3. Name: GEORGE E. WASHINGTON
Launched: 1840s? LATE?
Area: 1850s, early, Sacramento R., Calf.
Name: GEORGE LAW/CENTRAL AMERICA
Launched: 1850s?
Destroyed: Sank in gale with $280,000,000 in gold from Panama
aboard.
Owner: George "Liveoak" Law
Captain and pilots: Capt. George Law
Comments: Ran Panama to East Coast trade
Name: GEO. POPE
Type: sternwheel, woodenhull packet
Area: Unknown
Comments: Above picture is source of this listing
Name: GEORGE PRINCE/OUACHITA
Type: Sternwheel steel hull packet.
Size: 144' X 29.5' X 6.2'.
Power: Cross compounding condensing engines. 12" . 24"- 7ft.
Launched: 1822, Nashville, Tenn. by Nashville Bridge Co.
Destroyed: 1940, Jan., Dismantled
Owners: Royal House Route Company, Vicksburg, Miss.
Later, Capt. L.V. Cooley, New Orleans
Captains: Under Royal House, George Prince
Comments: Capt. Cooley changed the name to OUACHITA
: Machinery came from PERCY SWAIN
Name: GEO. S. WEEKS
Launched: 1850s or 60s?
Area: U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: GEORGE SPANGLER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 124' X 25' X 4.2'
Power: Engines, 10-1/2's - 3 ft. One boiler.
Launched: 1873, Madison, Ind.
Area: 1877, New Orleans-St. Martinsville
1879, Mo. R.
Spent some time on Osage R., in Mo.
Owners: built for Capt. Nat Williams
Captains: 1877, W.C. Smith
1. Name: GEORGE STRECKER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet.
Size: 127.6' X 23.8' X 3.9'
Launched: 1880, Long Reach W. Va.
Destroyed: 1887, Beverly, burned
Area: 1885-86, Marietta-Middleport
Owner: 1885-86 capt. Sheldon S. Stowe
Captains: Possibly at one time W.D. Crammond, Hawesville, Ky.
Comments: Whistle went to BEN HUR and others.
: Named for George (Gottlieb) Strecker, owner boilerworks
on Harmer side of Muskingum R., Marietta, Ga.
Name: GEO. W. MORE??
Name: GEO. W. KENDALL (Named after George Wilkins Kendall)
Size: 182'X 33'X 8 1/2', light draft: 3'
Launched: 1849, Oct 10, Wheeling, W. Va., by M'Lure and Dunlavy
Area: Ohio and Miss. Rivers.
Owner: Partly, Capt. Norton
Captain(s): Norton
Comments: First run: 1849, Nov. 13, Wheeling to Pittsburgh.
Engines by Phillips Foundry, Wheeling
Comments: Source: Articles from Daily Wheeling Gazette, 1848
: Named for George Wilkins Kendall
* Name: GEORGE WASHINGTON
Size: 360 tons
Power: High pressure
Launched: 1825, Cincinnati, Oh.
Name: GEORGETOWN
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 183 tons
Power: Engines, 14's- 4 ft., 2 boilers
Launched: 1852, Line Island, Pa./Pittsburgh
Destroyed: 1855, May 11, Mo. R., Bellefontaine Bluffs
Owners: Capt. Thomas Poe and others, Georgetown, Pa.
Area: Missouri R.
Comments: 1853, Oct. 12, Mo. R. sunk by snag, raised.
Name: GEORGIA
Type: Sidewheeler Size: 138 ton
Launched: 1817
Area: Savannah R.
Owner: Steamboat Company of Georgia
Captain:1823 - 1834, sometime between, Swymer, John
Comments: Source
Name: GEORGIA
Type: Probably a sternwheel wooden hull packet
Launched: 1851
Area Coosa R.
Comments: Source
1. Name: GEORGIA LEE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 178' X 33' X 5.'
Power: Engines, 18's- 8ft. Three boilers each 44" X 32'
Launched: 1898, Jeffersonville, Ind, by Howard Yard
Destroyed: 1918, Jan., Memphis, lost in ice.
Area: maiden trip and after Memphis-Cairo trade
Last until 1917 when Lee Line abandoned the trade, Memphis-Cincinnati
Owners: The Lee Line, Memphis
Captains: Maiden trip N.B. McNeely
Comments: Named for the daughter of Capt. James Lee
3. Name: GEORGIANA
Type: sternwheeler Size: 30 TON
Destroyed: 1850s, early
Area: 1850s, upper San Joaquine R., Calif.
Name: GEORGIE LEE
Type: sidewheele, wooden hull packet
Size: drew only about 15" of water
Launched: 1980, pre
Area 1880, said to be on Osage R. in Missouri.
Captains: 1880, Henry Baker
Name: GEORGIE OAKS
Type: sternwheeler
Size:
Area: ?St. Joe R.?
Comments: ?Any relation to George "Live Oaks" above at GEORGE LAW?
Name: GLANCUS
Launched: 1830s? late?
Area: 1840, U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: GLASGOW
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 49 tons.
Launched: 1845, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1851, off the lists.
Name: GLASGOW
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 208' X 34.5' X 5.', 340 tons
Power: 22's-7 ft., 3 boilers. Wheels: 27' dia, 11 buckets.
Launched: 1863, New Albany, Ind
Destroyed: 1873, Prudhomme Bend on Red R., hit wreck of MONSOON and sank.
Area: 1867, principally Mo. R.
1873, St Louis- Shreveport
: one season ran New Orleans-Ouachita R.
Companies associated with: 1867, St. Louis and Omaha Packet Company
Owners: 1864: Capt, William P. Lamothe
1873, Carter's Red River Line
Captains: 1867, William P. Lamothe
New Orleans-Ouachita R. season, Jack Brinker
Comments: This boat was severly damaged in the 1864, July 15th, St. Louis
boat fire. Board of Underwriters auctioned off burned boats.
GLASGOW went to Capt. Lamothe for $6.200
1. Name: GLASGOW
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 156' X 33' X 5.', 443 tons.
Power: 16's-4 1/2 ft.. 3 boilers, each 28" X 24'
Launched: 1866, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1876, Nov. 9, Louisville, ran into shore at foot of falls. Sank
then dismantled.
Area: 1866, built for Pittsburgh-Cincinnasti trade. Also made
Missouri R. trip that season.
1870, Pittsburgh-Nashville
1873, early Cairo-St. Louis
1873, spring, Evansville-Cincinnati
Owners: when lost, equal shares held by Memphis and Ohio River Packet
Company, Louisville and Henderson Mail Line and U.S. Mail Line.
Captains: 1866, came out with George Johnson, master.
1870, A. Robinson
1876, Andy Robinson, Jr.
1876, spring, Thomas Boluss
1876, fall, Master, H.A. Lozier
Name: GLEANER
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 165' X 30', 322 tons.
Launched: 1865, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1869, off the list.
Area: 1865, Memphis to Ark. R.
Owners: 1865, purchased by Capts. Dan Able and Richard C. Gray and others.
Comments: Bound for Memphis, snagged 12 mi. below Pine Bluff, Ark. Raised.
Name: GLENMONT
Type: Towboat
1. Name: GLOBE
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull packet Size: 54 tons
Launched: 1849, Brownsville, Pa.
Destroyed: 1856, off lists
1. Name: GLOBE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet Size: 241 tons
Launched: 1849, Paducah, Ky.
Destroyed: 1856, off the lists.
Area: U. Miss. R., *Mo. R.
1854-56, Minnesota R.
Owners: Capt. Louis Roberts; *Capt Andrew Wineland Captain: 1855, Bell, Edwin
Comments: *information from HERE
1. Name: GOLCONDA
Type: Ferryboat Wooden hull Size: 60' X 16' X 2.7' 21 tons
Area: Golconda, Ill.
Launched: 1849, Evansville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1886, Still listed
1. Name: GOLCONDA
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 89.5' X 25.3 X 4
Launched, 1890, Greenfield Landing, Mo.
Destroyed: 1901, Ohio R. Aug. 16, Livingston Point above Paducah, Ky.,
capsized by wind. Never recovered. At least 3 were lost.
Name: GOLD #1
Type: Sternwheeler Size: Small
Area: San Francisco Bay area
Owner: Petaluma and Santa Rosa Rail Road
Name: GOLD #2
Type: Sternwheeler Size: Small
Area: San Francisco Bay area
Owner: Petaluma and Santa Rosa Rail Road
Name: GOLD DUST
Launched: 1870s?
Destroyed: Exploded 18??, Aug. 7, 3:00 PM Hickman Ken.
Area: U. Mo. R.; Miss. R.
Captains: Capt. Gray, Lem:
Comments: Clemens, Samuel rode when he returned to America in
his later years.
3. Name: GOLD HUNTER
Launched: 1840's, late?
Area: 1850s early, Sacramento R. Calf.
Name: GOLDEN CITY
1. Name: GOLDEN CROWN/DE SOTO
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet. Size: 261' X 41' X 7'.
Power: 18's- 7fy. 3 boilers at first, later 4.
Launched: 1877, Cincinnati, Oh. for Capt Henry H. Drown.
Destroyed: 1890, Jan 28, Owensboro, Ky., burned.
Area: At first Cincinnati-New Orleans
1881, advertised running Vicksburg-New Orleans
Owners: 1877, when new, Capt Henry H. Drown
18?? Capt, Vincent Shinkle
1885, Purchased by Cincinnati & Memphis Packet Company.
Captains: 1881, Eugene Shinkle, Chant Shankle, Clerk
1885, Vincent Shinkle.
Comments: 1878, May, lost paddlewheel and it sank out of sight
: Cincincati and Memphis Packet Co. renamed her the DE SOTO
: 1885, Nov., Cairo, Ill., Capt Vincent Shinkle
died aboard after second stroke. Age 64.
Name: GOLDEN EAGLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 506.62 tons
Launched: 1864, Freedom/Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1870, off the lists
Area: Built for Cincinnati-Memphis trade
1868, went into Wheeling-Cincinnati trade
1869, went to Cincinnati-Big Sandy trade
Owners: Built for Capt. Wm. B. Donaldson and others
Sold within a month to The Dean Line
1868, Purchased by Capt. Amos E. Davis and others
Captains: 1869, Wash Honshell
Name: GOLDEN EAGLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 941 tons
Power: 26-1/2's- 7 ft. from the J.H. JOHNSON
Launched: 1876, St. Louis, Mo.
Destroyed: 1880, May 31, Thomas Landing above mouth of Ill. R., burned
Area: St. Louis-Keokuk trade
Owners: built by Capts. W.F. Davidson (Fuce) and Payton (Pate) Davidson
(The Davidson Line)
Captains: when burned, David R. Asbury
Comments: Made run St. Louis - Alton 1876, 0/1/35
Name: GOLDEN EAGLE Originally the WM. CARIG
Name: GOLDEN GATE
1853-57
Name: GOLDEN GATE (Could be the same boat as below?)
: 1862, during Civil War was under command of Gen. Sherman on Tennessee R.
Name: GOLDEN GATE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Launched: 18?63?, Lawrenceburg, Ind.
Destroyed: off the lists 1865
1. Name: GOLDEN GATE
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 131.4' X 30' X 5.'
Power: 14'- 4 ft.
Launched: 1878, Dubuque, Iowa for J.H.S. Coleman, Davenport, Iowa and
Brothers James and Andrew
Destroyed: 1903, Carrollton, Ky., Dismantled.
Area: 1881-82, Towing to Hannibal and St. Louis
1900, Ill. R.
1902, Cincinnati-Madison
1903, running Louisville to Monterey on Ky. R. 3 times a week.
Owners: 1878, J.H.S. Coleman, Davenport, Iowa and Brothers James and Andrew
1895, purchased by Hannibal and St. Louis River Commission
1903, purchased by C.F. Disken, Carrollton, Ky who dismantled her.
Captains: 1881-82, J.M. Turner
1900, G.M. Sivley
1902, W.E. Pratt, Madison, Ind.
Comments: engines came from JAMES MEANS
Mentioned in this Article
Name: GOLDENROD
Type: barge, Floating Theater
1. Name: GOLDENROD
Type: Sternwheel steel hull lighthouse tender
Size: 150' X 26.5' X 3.7'
Power: Engines, 12's- 5ft., two boilers.
Launched: 1888, Sweeney Yard, Jeffersonville, Ind.
Destroyed: 1925 or so, Middlepoet, Oh., broke from moorings during flood. Lost.
Area: As tender, Ohio R. and its tributaries.
Captains: At first Owen F. Jolly.
Later Leslie T. Hill of Aberdeen, Oh.
Owners: 1925 Was decommissioned and sold to John Lyons, Middleport, Oh.
These next two GOLDENRODS may be one and the same?
Name: GOLDENROD
Type: Excursion Steamer
Area: Ohio R.
Comments:Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
Show you care, send a Bear!
Name: GOLDENROD
Launched: 1890's
Area: Ohio R.
Captain(s): Horton
Comments:From The Tribune Telegraph,
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, Wed. Apr. 28 1897
Name: GORDON C. GREENE, Orginally the CAPE GIRARDEAU
1923-1967
Name: GOSSAMER
Comments: 1856, late Feb, Torn from docks and swept downstream in
ice flow during Great Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
Forced ashore slightly only damaged.
1. Name: GOVERNOR ALLEN
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 217.9' X 40.8' X 10'
Power: Engines, 20's-8 ft. Six Boilers, each 44" X 20'
Launched: 1867, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard
Destroyed: Dismantled. Engines went to EDWARD J. GAY
Areas: 1869, was in N.O.-Ouachita R. trade
Often ran Vicksburg and Greenville
Near end, N.O.-Bayou Sara trade
Owners: built for Capt. John Smoker, New Orleans
1869, sold to John C. Sinnott, New Orleans
*1870s, late, Capt. John G. Benson. Was also master.
Captains: Capt. J.M. White
1869, R. Sinnott was master
1877, in Vicksburg and Greenville trade J.J. Brown was master
Comments: Named for Gov. of Miss., Henry W. Allen
1. Name: GOVERNOR ALLEN
Type: Sidewheel Wooden hull packet. Size: 136' X 26' X 4.', 206 ton.
Power: Engines, 14's- 5 ft.. 3 boilers.
Launched: 1874, Irontown, Oh.
Destroyed: 1877, Mar 13, Mo. R., Malta Bend, Miller's Island Bend, snagged. Boat and cargo lost.
Area: Winter of 1875-76, was at Cairo, dormant
1876, spring, Went to Mo.R. to become shuttle boat connecting
St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway at DeWitt, Mo.
Owners: 1876, spring, purchased by W.Y. Lewis, St Louis.
3. Name: GOVERNOR DANA
Launched: 1840s? Size:67 tons.
Area: Down east boat/ 1850s, early, Sacramento R., Calif.
Name: GOVERNOR DUDLEY
Comments: Collided with the steamboat North Carolina on July 26,1840.
North Carolina sank. Info on wreck
Name: GOVERNOR JAMES P. EAGLE
Launched: 1887 or 88, Batesville, Ark.
Area: White R.
Owner: 1887-92 Captain Charles B. Woodbury
Comments: Nicknamed the WHITE EAGLE because of her brilliant white paint.
Name: GOVERNOR MOORE
1. Name: GOVERNOR MORTON
Type: Sidewheel wooden hull packet Size: 150 tons
Launched: 1865, Indianapolis, Ind.
Destroyed: 1865, Aug. 6, Indianapolis, Ind., sank. Boat was dismantled
and hull was used as barge for hauling paving stone.
Area: White R.
Owner: Indianapolis and White River Steamboat Company
Captain: 1865 when launched-1866, Aug. 6 when sunk, Socwell, Henry Mansfield,
of Vevay, Ind.; pilots, Michael R. Scudder and Hiram Minick.
Comments: 1866, Apr. 19, went up to Cold Creek, said to be the highest
point on White R. a commercial boat ever reached.
: Article
Name: GOVERNOR RAMSEY
Launched: 1850s
Destroyed: Area: 185?, U. Miss. R.
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
Name: GRACE BARTON
Type: Stern-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1890?
Destroyed: 1916, by fire during filming of movie Jim Bledsoe.
Area: California Delta
Comments: 1950s, Used in making movie "Jim Bludso". On California
movie lot. See Historic Movies Filmed in the California Delta Area
Name: GRACE BROWN
Name: GRACE DARLING
Launched: 1840, after.
Name: GRAHAM, see James L. Graham
1. Name: GRAND BAY
Type: Sternwheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 121' X 26.5' X 4.5'
Launched: 1857, Mobile, Ala.
Area: *cir. 1862. Neches R., Tex.
Owners: When new, Daniel L. Shearer, New Orleans
1858, Nov., sold to R.J. Fox, New Orleans
1860, Nov., sold to James Lovie, New Orleans
Transfered next day to Benjamin J. Montgomery, New Orleans
1861, Jan., sold to Samuel F. Rice, New Orleans
Captains: 1858, under Fox, D.G. Hill, New Orleans
1860-61, under Montgomery and Rice, Julius A. Pratt
Went to Confederate Registry
Name: GRADY BURK
Launched: 1840s? LATE?
Area: Ohio R.; Miss. R.
Captain: 1851, White, J. M.
Name: GRAND DUKE
Type: Sidewheel packet, wooden hull
Size: 205' X 35' X 7.5'
Power: 24's- 7 ft., 4 boilers
Launched: 1859, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Destroyed: 1863, Sept. 25, accidently burned at Shreveport.
Area: Miss. R.; 1859, N.O. - Shreveport;
Owner: 1859, Applegate, Capt. Samuel of New Orleans.
: Start of Civil War, went to Confederate registry under new
owner, McCrown, Hugh D., of N.O.
Captain: 1869, Approx. White, J. M.
: Start of Civil War, Master was Norton, Alex of Stubenville,
J.M. White continued as Capt.
Comments: Cabin and engines came from DUKE
Source: *Way's Packet Directory, 1884 - 1994
Name: GRAND ERA
Launched: 1860s?
Area: Miss. R.
Captain: 1869, Approx. White, J. M.
Comments: Carried spectators for ROBERT E. LEE vs NATCHEZ race.
Name: GRAND FLOATING PALACE
Name: GRAND FLOATING PALACE, NEW
Name: GRAND REPUBLIC originally the GREAT REPUBLIC
Name: GRAND REPUBLIC, originally J.B.M. KEHLOR then HELENA
Given name GRAND REPUBLIC in 1886
Name: GRAND TURK
Name: GRAND VICTORIA II, originally the QUEEN of NEW ORLEANS
1. Name: GRANITE STATE
Type: Sidewheeler, Wooden hull packet Size: 296 tons
Launched: 1852, West Elizabeth, Pa.
Destroyed: 1860, off the lists
Area: 1852, Pittsburgh-St. Louis
Owner: Galena, Dunleith and Minnisota Packet Company
Captains: 1852, Rodgers
1856, Hurd, Jesse Y.; 1857, Gabbert, W.H.
1. Name: GRANITE STATE
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull packet
Size: 183' X 34' X 5'
Power: Rees engines, 16's-5 1/2 ft. 3 boilers, each 38" X 26'
Launched: 1870, California, Pa.
Destroyed: 1878, retired, Used the People's Warf Boat at Wheeling, W. Va.
Area: 1870, Pittsburgh-Portsmouth, Oh.; 1872, spring, Cincinnati-Pomeroy
later, back to Pittsburgh-Portsmouth
Owner:
Captains: 1870-72, Wash H. Kerr; 1872- ? Wash Honshell
Later, Kerr was again her master through 1878 when boat retired.
Joe and Davis Alexander were her pilots at this time.
Comments: Notes from WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA,
WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER, June 24, 1951
1. Name: GRANITE STATE
Type: Sternwheeler, wooden hull packet
Size: 221' X 35.6' X 5.7'
Power: Rees engines, 16's 5 1/2 ft. from last GRANITE STATE. 2 boilers
each 42" X 28' with twelve 6" flues. Paddlewheel; 22'dia.
with 26' buckets .
Launched: 1879, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: Grand Chain, Ohio R., near Mound City, Ill. sank and lost
Hull became warf boat at Catlerrsburg, Ky. which was eventually
owned by Capt. Gordon C. Green
Area: 1879, Pittsburgh-Portmouth, 1880, Pittsburgh-St. Louis
Owner: 1879-80 when he died, Wash H. Kerr along with
others with shares at the time, Capt. Wash Honshell,
Capt. Tom Hunter, T.T. Johnson
1884, Wash Honshell - See
1884, * Nov. Sold to Capt. Charles Buchanan
1888, Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Company
Captains: 1888, Don Marr
1. Name: GREAT REPUBLIC/GRAND REPUBLIC
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 350' X 51' X 9.5'
Power: Compound engins, 29's, 56's-10 ft.. 6 boilers
Launched: 1867, Shousetown, Pa.
Destroyed: 1877, Sept. 9, caught fire at St. Louis while she was laid up.
Area: 1867, St. Louis - New Orleans.
Owner: 1867 at launch -1868, Capt. William B. Donaldson (1/3), Joseph P.
Haigh (1/3), Samuel Morrow (1/6), Andrew Hartupee (1/6)
1868, Nov.-1871, May, Capt. William B Donaldson and a reorganized
group.
1871, May, - 1875 Capt. William H Thorwegan and Thomas Morrison
1875, Capt. William H. Thorwegan, entire.
Captains: 1867-71, Master was William B. Donaldson
First trip, Capt. Donaldson, Master; Sam McBride and Sam
Williamson, pilots; William Patterson, mate.
1871, May-1877, Sept. 9, William H. Thorwegan
Comments: 1876, renamed GRAND REPUBLIC
Comments: Carried spectators for ROBERT E. LEE vs NATCHEZ race.
Comments: Note from the WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER,
June 24, 1951
Name: GREAT WESTERN
Type: Side-wheeler
Size: 185'; 60 staterooms, 300 berths
Launched: 1838
Area: Great Lakes
Comments: The GREAT WESTERN was the first steamer on the Lakes to be
fitted with a spacious upper cabin.
Detailed description in this Article
Name: GREATER BUFFALO
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 520'
Launched: 1924
Area: Great Lakes
Captain and pilots:
Comments: Along with her sistership, The GREATER DETROIT, (below)
she was one of the two largest sidewheelers ever built.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: GREATER DETROIT
Type: Side-wheeler Size: 520'?
Launched: 1924
Area: Great Lakes
Comments: Along with her sistership, The GREATER BUFFALO (above),
she was one of the two largest sidewheelers ever built.
: Mentioned in this Article
Name: GREENFIELD
Type: Side-wheeler Size:
Launched: 1840s?
Area: Eastern boat
Captain and pilots: Capt. Reed, D. W.
1. Name: GREENLAND
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet
Size: 210' X 32' X 6.5', overall width was 49'
Power: When new, engines, 15's- 6ft. from the ZANETTA. Two boilers, each 44" X 22-1/2'
Later got a 16" bore from HENRY M. STANLEY, and 3 boilers.
Wheels: 28' dia., with 6-1/2' buckets
Launched: 1903, Harmar, Oh. at Knox Yard
Destroyed:1917-18 winter, Cincinnati marine ways, while beinng reparied after
grounding(below)an ice gorge lifted her from cradles, lost.
Areas: Designed for Pittsburgh-Charleston trade, but ran Pameroy-Charleston most of career.
During low water, sometimes ran Cincinnati-Louisville
1917, ran several trips Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Owners: Capt. Gordon C. Greene
Captains: At first, Gordon C. Greene
Occasionally, Mary Greene took command
Comments: Had 54 cabin staterooms
: 1904, Made 4 trips from Ohio R. to St. Louis World's Fair
: 1904, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., while it was laid up, Tom Greene was born aboard this boat
: 1904, Capt. Jesse P. Hughs and bide took wedding trip aboard to St. Louis.
: 1917, Bonanza Bar, Portsmouth, Oh., injured hull when grounded
: Her whistle was from the COURIER and went to the CHRIS GREEN
1. Name: GREENWOOD - See Post Cards of This Boat
Type: Sternwheel wooden hull packet
Size: 168.5' X 30' X 4.4'
Power: Engines, 14's- 6 ft.. Three boilers, each 38" X 18'.
Launched: 1898, Parkersburg, West Virginia
Destroyed:1925, November 17. Cincinnati. Backed into by CHRIS GREENE.
The GREENWOOD turned over and sank.
Area: Ohio R., Pittsburgh-Parkersburg, then Pittsburgh-Charleston
Later, Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston
1912, was in Pittsburgh-Parkersburg trade
1925, made several runs Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
Owner: At first, Captain Gordon C. Greene, 3/4 and Carrie G. Greenwood, 1/4 (Greene Line Steamers, Inc.)
1925, chartered by D. Grover Gill
Captain: 1898, Gordon C. Greene, with Capt. Jesse P. Hughes as pilot.
Possibly Mary Greene
1912, Kraft, Henry R.
Comments: Source
: Nearly sank on 3rd trial voyage when hit something and broke floor timbers.
Name: GREY EAGLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 352 tons
Launched: 1840, Louisville, Ky.
Destroyed: 1845, off the lists.
Area: Louisville-New Orleans.
Captain: John Shallcross
Name: GREY EAGLE
1847-50
Name: GREY EAGLE
1850-57
1. Name: GREY EAGLE
Type: Sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 250' X 35' X 5.', 382 tons.
Power: 22's- 7ft., 4 boilers.
Launched: 1857, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1861, May, with Capt. Harris at the wheel, Smashed against
Rock Island bridge piling. 7 lives and most of cargo lost.
Area: U. Miss. R.
Owner: Galena & Minnesota Packet Co.
Captain(s): 1858, Master, Daniel Smith Harris
Comments: 1858, raced ITASCA
Mentioned in this Article
1. Name: GREY EAGLE
From Olden Times.com
The Louisville Post, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
September 22, 1881
Type: sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 238' X 36' X 6.'.
Launched: 1871, Jeffersonville, Ind. by Howard Yard.
Dismantled: 1888
Area: 1872, Sept. Louisville, Evansville and Henderson (from a passenger named Davisons's boarding ticket)
1881, Sept., Owensboro, Evansville, Henderson. (See above ad)
Owners: Originally, Louisville, Evansville & Henderson Packet Company
Captains: 1872, Sept., A.T, Gilmore (From a passenger named Davisons's boarding ticket)
1873, E.P.T. Holcroft
1881, Jessie G. Berry
Comments: When dismantled, parts went to the CITY OF OWENSBORO
: The ticket above was for "Room No. 213 Trip 78".
Name: GREY EAGLE
Launched: 1892
Destroyed: 1918, Jan. Smashed by ice
Area: Miss. R.
Owner: Eagle Packet Co.
Captain(s): Daniel Smith Harris
Name: GROSBEAK, U.S.S. Tinclad # 8, originally the FANNY
1. Name: GUIDING STAR
Type: SidewheelWooden hull packet.
Size: 300' X 41.5'(77') X 7.5', 1.800 tons.
Boiler deck, 60' wide in front with guards running back 165'.
Main Cabin, 165'X 16' X 11-1/2'. 50 staterooms. Office and barbershop
Texas deck, 108' long. Captain's Cabin 16' X 16' with two 8' X 10'
rooms opening off of it. Next came Crews quarters, then freedmen's
bureau and finally cabin boy's quarters.
Pilot house, 14' sq.
Top of stacks, 85' from light-load line.
Roof bell weighed 1,800 lbs.
Power: Original engines, which were from the from ROBERT BURNS, were
replaced in 1880 with 26's- 8 ft., 2 flues and 5 boilers,
each 42" X 28'
Paddlewheels were 28' dia. with 14' buckets, 17 arms.
Launched: 1878, Cincinnati, Oh.
Destroyed: 1893, Jan 6, 8 mi. below New Madrid, Mo., cut down by ice.
Area: 1878, Cincinnati-New Orleans trade.
1883, Cincinnati-Parker's Grove pleasure park, Excursions
Owners: 1878-1881, June when lost at U.S. Marshal's sale,
Capt William B. Miller
1881, June, Purchased by Capts. J. D. Hegler and Sterling McIntyre
*At one time, Frank Y. Grayson
Captains; 1878, William B. Miller; Pilots, Charles Owens and George Melona.
Comments: 1914, bell went to HOMER SMITH
: *From site visitor, Patty Neville
My great uncle, Jacob Dice Hegler, owned the stern wheeler,
The Guiding Star, which went from Cincinnati to New Orleans
in the late 1800's. According to the book, Thrills of the
Historic Ohio River by Frank Y. Grayson, it was the first
steam boat on the river to have electric lights. She would
have to stop at landings just for people to come to see the
lights.
Name: Gunboats: Raising the Gunboats
ELFIN
KEY WEST
TAWAH
UNDINE
VENUS
Comments: See link above for ongoing efforts to raise these 5 boats.
Name: GULKANA
Type: Stearnwheel ferryboat Size:
Launched: 1909
Area: Copper R., Alaska
Comments:Alaskan Riverboats
Name: GUNTERSVILLE
Type: Sternwheel packet
Area: Tenn. R.
Name: GUS LINA
Destroyed: 1860, Apr., 8 or 10 miles below Dakota ?City, Neb.,
snagged and lost.
Comments: Source: Dakota City Herald, Apr. 21 1860
: Comment from newspaper:
". . . One of the causes of the accident was a very heavy
insurance on her, which has sank many a boat before. . . "
Name: GUY HUNTER
Launched: Built 1870s? at Arrow Rock, Mo, by Gustave Moehle and Sons.
Area: Mo. R.?
Comments: from the Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly.
1. Name: GUYANDOTTE
Type: Sidewheel batwing wooden hull packet
Size: 104.3' X 16.1' X 2.9'
Power: Belt operated from one engine, 8.75 in. stroke.
1 boiler, 46' X 7-1/2 ft.
Launched: 1896, Guyandotte, W. Va.
Destroyed: 1908, Aug. 13, burned
Area: At one time went up the Guyandotte R. to Logan W. Va.
Also saw service on Big Sandy R.
Owners: 1902, Dec., sold to James P. York and Albert G. Holt, Kenova, W. Va.
1904, Mar. sold to William P. Vaughn, Catletteburg, Ky.
Name: GYPSY
Launched: 1830s?
Area: 1839, U. Miss. R.?
Comments: Mentioned in this Article
